World Building: Discourse in the Mind

Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nList of Figures\nNotes on Contributors\n1. World Building in Discourse\n2. ‘I felt like I’d stepped out of a different reality’: Possible Worlds Theory, Metalepsis and Digital Fiction\n3. Author-Character Ethos in Dan Brown’s Langdon-Series Novels\n4. Building More-Than-Human Worlds: Umwelt Modelling in Animal Narratives\n5. Building Hollywood in Paddington: Text World Theory, Immersive Theatre, and Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man\n6. Speaker Enactors in Oral Narrative\n7. Text World Theory as Cognitive Grammatics : A Pedagogical Application in the Secondary Classroom\n8. Worlds from Words: Theories of World-building as Creative Writing Toolbox\n9. The Texture of Authorial Intention\n10. Building Resonant Worlds: Experiencing the Text-Worlds of The Unconsoled\n11. ‘This is not the end of the world’: Situating Metaphor in the Text-Worlds of the 2008 British Financial Crisis\n12. The Humorous Worlds of Film Comedy\n13. Spanglish Dialogue in You and Me : An Absurd World and Senile Mind Style\n14. Autofocus and Remote Text-World Building in the Earliest English Narrative Poetry\n15. ‘Into the Futures of their Makers’: A Cognitive Poetic Analysis of Reversals, Accelerations and Shifts in Time in the Poems of Eavan Boland\n16. Stylistic Interanimation and Apophatic Poetics in Jacob Polley’s ‘Hide and Seek’\nIndex